“Pilate therefore said unto Him, Art Thou a king then?
Jesus answered, thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth My voice.”John 18:37 ************************
A Rock that Stands Forever Author: Paul Gerhardt Tune: Stand up for Jesus (A. Geibel /arr. H. DeCou) * 1. A Rock that stands forever, Is Christ, my Righteousness! In Him I stand un-fearing, In everlasting bliss! Christ is my boast and glory-All wrath for me is o'er; The judgment of the sinner: It frightens me no more. * 2. There is no condemnation, There is no hell for me! The torment and the fire-My eyes shall never see! For me there is no sentence, For me there is no sting, For Christ, my Lord, who saved me, Will shield me with His wing! * 3. No angel nor a devil, No danger, fear, nor fight, No foe, no tribulation, No throne, nor pow'r, nor might, No height, no depth, no creature, That has been or can be. Can pluck me from Thy bosom-Can sever me from Thee! * 4. My heart leaps up with gladness - Grief cannot linger there! Her voice sings high in glory, Bathed in the sunshine fair! The Fountain of my singing, Is Jesus there above, The Sun that shines upon me, Is Jesus and His Love!
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The Cup of Wrath! “For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and He poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them” (Psalm 75:8). There has been only One who has ever drunk this cup down to its very dregs! Cain has been drinking it for 5,000 years and finds that his punishment greater than he can bear - but has not come to the dregs. Judas had been drinking it for some 2000 years, often crying out with a groan that shakes Hell, “Oh that I had never been born! Oh that I had never seen or heard of the Lord Jesus Christ!” But he has not reached the dregs. The fallen angels have not come near the dregs! The only One who has taken, tasted, drunk, and wrung out the bitterest of the bitter dregs - has been the Judge Himself, the Lord Jesus! You know how often, when on earth, He spoke of it. “Are you able to drink the cup that I shall drink of” (Matthew 20:22). “the cup which My Father hath given Me, shall I not drink it”(John 18:11)? The universe saw Him with it at His lips. It was our cup of trembling - the cup in which the wrath due to His people was mixed. What wrath, what woe! A few drops made Him cry, “Now is my soul deeply troubled!” In the garden, the sight of it wrung out the strange, mysterious words, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death!” Though God-man, He staggered at what He saw, and went on trembling. The next day, on Calvary, He drank it all! I suppose the three hours of darkness may have been the time when He was drinking it down the very dregs; for then arose from His broken heart, the wail which so appealed to the heart of the Father, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me!” As He drank the last drop, and cried out, “It is finished!” we may believe that the holy angels felt an inconceivable relief - and even the Father Himself! So tremendous was the wrath and curse - the wrath and curse due to our sin! Jesus drank that cup as the substitute for His innumerable people, who were given to Him by the Father; and thereby freed them from ever tasting even one drop of that fierce wrath, that “cup of red wine, mixed with spices,” with its dregs - its unknown terrors! “Death and the curse were in our cup, O Christ, ‘twas full for Thee! But Thou hast drained the last dark drop, ‘Tis empty now for me!” “Once it was mine, that cup of wrath, And Jesus drank it dry!” --Andrew Bonar ************************** Christ Must Be All! We cannot keep our eye too exclusively or too intently fixed on Jesus. All salvation is in Him. All salvation proceeds from Him. All salvation leads to Him. And, for the assurance and comfort of our salvation, we are to repose believingly and entirely on Him. Christ must be all! Christ the beginning; Christ the center; and Christ the end. Oh sweet truth to you who are sensible of your poverty, vileness, and insufficiency, and of the ten thousand flaws and failures of which, perhaps, no one is cognizant but God and your own soul! Oh, to turn and rest in Christ; a full Christ; a loving Christ; a tender Christ, whose heart's love never chills, from whose eye darts no reproof, from whose lips breathes no sentence of condemnation! Christ must be all! --Octavius Winslow ********************************************** Daily Readings February 2-8 2 - Exodus 29-30; Matthew 21:23-46 3 - Exodus 31-33; Matthew 22:1-22 4 - Exodus 34-35; Matthew 22:23-46 5 - Exodus 36-38; Matthew 23:1-22 6 - Exodus 39-40; Matthew 23:23-39 7 - Leviticus 1-3; Matthew 24:1-28 8 - Leviticus 4-5; Matthew 24:29-51
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